Garbage-receiver



(No Model.)

H. BYROM.

GARBAGE RECEIVER.

Patented July 29,1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY BYROM, OF BRADFORD, PENNSYLVANIA.

GARBAGE-RECEIVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 433,233, dated July 29, 1890.

Application filed May 4, 1889. Serial No. 309,666. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY BYROM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bradford, McKean county, Pennsylvania, have in vented a new and useful Receptacle for Refuse or Garbage, of which the following is a speeltication.

Figure l is a front view of the receptacle. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3 is a back view of same.

My invention relates to the remedy of an evil which is the cause of perplexity, trouble, and disease in dwellings arising from the exhalations from garbage and refuse, which are the inevitable products of housekeeping Linder any circumstances. My idea is to carry and retain the said garbage in a receiver-box provided with an outer hinged door, means to hold such door normally closed, and a rod and treadle to open the door, from the time of its deposit therein until the time it is carried away either for destruction or for further use.

In Fig. l is shown the receptacle A, with the hinged reception-door B closed, and the outer edge of the hinged treadle-board C, connected by rod E with movable joints G and L to said door B, the said treadle when the door is shut being elevated to an angle of about forty-iive degrees. The door B when shut is held tightly closed by means of weights K and ropes I, running over pulleys J, and through guides V to the front bar H, where it .is securely fastened. The reception-door B is opened by a downward pressure of the foot upon treadle C, as shown in Fig. 2. The slidetray O, which consists of a sheet of metal or other smooth-polished substance flanged on two sides, is fastened to the inside of the door B, so that one of the unanged ends of the sheet comes even with the top of the inside of door B; but the lower unlanged end of sheet projects several inches beyond the lower end of the inside of door. This projection, as shown in Fig. 2, is intended, for the sake of cleanliness, to surely convey the refuse through the hopper Q into the tub R without allowing any of the garbage to lodge in the aperture left between the door B when open and the box A which would hinder a perfect closing of the door.

The -method of opening the reception-door by the pressure of the foot leaves both hands free to scrape garbage from vessels of any kind into the receptacle, and the moment the foot-pressure is removed from the treadle the door B is automatically closed and the receptacle A is tightly sealed and cannot be left open. Y

This receptacle A can be used inside the house or built into the side of the house with the reception-door inside and the deliverydoor S outside, or it may be used separately outside and at a convenient distance upon the base D. The outside or delivery door is shown in Fig. 3 as open, and this gure also shows the tub R and also the hopper Q partially exposed, as also sewer-connection RV W'here sewerage is convenient, then the bottom of the tub R should be perforated, so as to discharge the liquid refuse into and through sewer-connection P; but where there is no system of sewerage, then the bottom of tub should be solid, and the liquid would have to be removed through the delivery-door with the solid garbage in tub R.

Fig. 3 also shows ventilator, from and through which vapors may be carried to chimney and then consumed, or may be carriedup into the air to any necessary distance, or the ventilator may be omitted altogether.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The combination, in a garbagereceiver, of a receiver-box with an outside hinged door, means whereby said door is held in a closed position, and a rod and treadle connect-ed to said door to open the same, substantially as described and shown.

2. The combination, in a-garbage-receiver, of a receiver-box provided with an outside hinged door, connections to said door passing over pulleys upon said box, and weights attached to such connections, whereby the door is held in a closed position.

3. The combination, in a garbage-receiver provided with a hinged door, of flexible connections to said door passing over pulleys and provided with Weights, a rod attached to said door, and a treadle connected to the rod, whereby theV door is opened by pressure on the treadleand shutautomatically when such pressure is removed.

4. The combination, in a garbage receiver,

of a receiver-box provided with an upper outside hinged door, counter-balances whereby such door is held closed, a lower outside hinged door, and a connection to the sewer, substantially as described.

5. A garbage-receiver provided with an upreceiver, and a door whereby said tub may zo be withdrawn, of a hopper above the tub, and an upper outer hinged door held to its seat by counter-balances, as described.

7. The combination, with the receivingdoor of a garbage-receiver, of a flanged tray 25 O, fastened to the interior face of said door and projecting beyond the lower end Jthereof, substantially as described.

8. The combination, with the outer door of a garbage-receptacle, of a tray O, fastened to 3o the interior face of said door and projecting beyond the hinged end thereof, substantially as described.

HENRY BYROM. 

